May 6, 2003
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Well, these past few days have been difficult, mentally that is. My sister was really sick on Sunday so her boyfriend and I brought her some tea and hot water. She looked like she fell into a sewer and then somehow managed to slosh back to USC: Greenish, nauseous, and tired. She thinks it was food poisoning from a Vietnamese sandwich or something.
Actually, since Thursday I had been studying for my stats final which was the one final that I was dreading most of all (so many equations…). I went to a review on Thursday and then started studying on my own from Friday until Monday. It was horrible…
Well, long story short, I just studied, studied, and then studied some more…I started from chapter 4 (where we started) and did all of the odd problems in each of the sections all the way until chapter 9. What did I learn? I learned what it felt like to have a false sense of intelligence. The questions in the text are waaaay too easy, and because of that, I was like, “whoa, I must be really smart because these are ‘so simpo!’” I did my first practice exam on Monday and realized that I wasn’t smart at all, the textbook was just really easy…I can’t do factorials at all…without replacement?...Permutations?...why is this all so foreign to me?!!!
Monday afternoon I went to Stefan’s review which was pretty packed with all of the stupid people who were cramming…including myself…(sigh)…
I left after 1 hour and went to commons with Daniel, ate some Wolfgang’s, and then just did another practice exam. How the time flies! We were there 3 hours and it felt like maybe 1.
Monday night was just more studying, finished the practice exam I started at Commons and did the super-tough Spring 1998 exam which, by far, is the most difficult final…if Spring 1998 was hard, Fall 1999 was easy, and Fall 2002 was hard, does that mean students were once smart, regressed into stupidity, and now are making some sort of miraculous bounce-back? Or is it that I’m just looking too deep into things? Nah, can’t be that…
I set my alarm to wake me up at
The final wasn’t that bad, but it was still bad. I couldn’t understand the first two problems at all…I hate math! And I think I f-ed up a lot of the lower problems on each page (like each problem has an a, b, c, etc, and I messed up whatever happens to be the last part of each problem…my answers were pure, unadulterated B.S.)
Well, now I have to study for my mythology exam tomorrow and my ITP exam the next day…alas…
**--**Loretta “not to clever” Wang**--**
Comments (4)
Ah, my dear Loretta. You know, when you closed with "Loretta 'not so clever' Wang" you make it seem like your last name is part of a drug ring or something like that. Or maybe even a part of the Wu Tang clan. Or maybe I'm just weird like that. Sorry I didn't call you after Lisa called, we ended up talking for WAY too long. Well, good luck on the rest of your finals and see you when you get back. When do you get back btw? Well, toodles...your ever smarter friend...Chris
lets just hope everyone else did worse than we did
study up roletts! Must not have a flundering Mrs. Legolas now!
damn it that last entry of yours "the song entry" that was too funny. the entire thing. well, just be glad that one is over. i'm sure you kicked ass on the rest. (i'm just being supportive. hehe. j/j) good luck. when do you come back? talk to you later. bye.
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